What is dogma but the intellectual conception and verbal expression…

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

As a dogma, theologians teach that many belong to the Church who are out of its visible unity; as a moral truth that to be out of the Church is no personal sin, except to those who sin in being out of it. That is, they will be lost, not …

God knows that I would rather stand in the lowest place within the Truth, than in the highest without it. Nay, outside the Truth the higher the worse. It is only so much more opposition to Truth, so much more propagation of falsehood.

No ignorance of truth is a personal sin before God, except that ignorance which springs from personal sin.

There are only two centres, God and ourselves; and we must rest on one or on the other.

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light …